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  • From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
  • To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] baby jupiter grape vine
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:56:13 -0400

Some of you might recall the mystery problem I had with a Canadice grape. It
looked healthy, but didn't fruit. It would produce "fruiting tendrils", but
they would shrivel and fall off before blooming.

So, I finally replaced it. I dug it out this spring, and planted a Jupiter
vine from Double A Vineyards.

It arrived dormant, and has sprouted nicely. And the little 1-foot vine is
sporting 4 fruiting tendrils that have progressed farther than the Canadice
buds usually made it.

I'm sure you all will tell me to pinch them off. But I am SOOOOO tempted to
leave at least one, and see if I can actually taste a grape. (and maybe
decide I don't even like this vine.)

Talk me off the ledge, folks.

Thanks,
Ginda
eastern MA, zone 6
where everything is in or just past bloom, and the world is green and fresh
and full of promise, and the summer insects and blights and ... haven't yet
set in. :)



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